St. Rocco’s welcomes you to our first in-person reading of the year! We are not quite ready to move indoors, so this reading will take place behind Urban Aftermath Books, with readers on the back porch.

Gather at 4:30pm to hang out or buy books. Reading begins at 5pm: The readers will be reading from the back porch. You can get to the back porch through the store until readers begin, or during intermission. During readings, walk around to Hudson Street to enter the parking lot, or wait for intermission. (Parking lot entrance is between 256 and 260 Hudson St.)

We are hosting Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu on their tour for Pee Poems by Lao Yang.

Joshua Edwards was born on Galveston Island. He’s the author of The Double Lamp of Solitude, Architecture for Travelers, and several other books; and he translated María Baranda’s Ficticia and co-translated (with Lynn Xu) Lao Yang’s Pee Poems. He directs and coedits Canarium Books.

Parisa Yekalamlari lives in upstate NY. She is the farmer and co-editor of Wyrm, a farm share and literary magazine.